And kind of that makes sense, because when you think about it, probably the key determinant in how we vote is do we feel better off or worse off since the government got elected?

I have to say, for once on these growth figures, I point the finger of blame personally far more at the Bank of England than I do with the government.

I think we have the worst government of the Bank of England in our history. They were far too slow to put interest rates up when inflation was clearly coming down the track.

Many of us were screaming about this, ‘no inflation’s not going to happen’, then when it started, ‘don’t worry your poor little heads, it’s just transitory’. And now we’re going the other way.

They are far too slow to reduce interest rates. And I think that interest rate message actually is for me a very important driver of why we are now in recession.

But my debate tonight – is Britain getting poorer, and I apply that both at a personal level and indeed at a national level, because I think we really are.

And I think one of the problems is that so much of this economic debate is couched in terms that most folks just don’t understand.

And that’s no insult to you, the viewers, the listeners or anybody else. It’s just put in such a way that it’s not obvious to anybody what it means. Well, our job here is to try and simplify everything.